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$172,175 at six that were not in line, making a total of 

 $636,775 in seventeen years. At its six Grand Circuit 

 meetings the New England Trotting Horse Breeders' As- 

 sociation has paid out $264,500, an average of over 

 $44,000 for each meeting, while the first mile below two 

 minutes in harness was paced over its track when Star 

 Pointer placed the world's record at 1 '-5934 • Rarus 

 2:1354* St. Julien 2:11%, Maud S. 2:08^4, and Cresceus 

 2 :o2^4 also made their records at Grand Circuit meetings. 

 "To this I also wish to add that every member of 

 the Grand Circuit, with but one exception, has paid its 

 premiums during the week of the meeting, and I am 

 pleased to state that the one that failed to meet its obli- 

 gations on the day they became due subsequently paid 

 every dollar through The National Trotting Association, 

 with which I have been identified since it was organized 

 in 1870 and without which there would have been no 

 Grand Circuit or other means of enforcing discipline and 

 holding owners, nominators and drivers to their engage- 

 ments. The continued growth of the Grand Circuit has 

 been a source of pleasure to me, but the pride that I take 

 in it is not as great as I always have in the work that I 

 have done and am still doing for The National Trotting 

 Association. I was one of the three delegates sent by the 

 Springfield Club to New York when 'The National Asso- 

 ciation for the Promotion of the Interests of the American 

 Trotting Turf was organized at a congress held at the 

 Everett House, February 2 to 4, 1870. Amasa Sprague, 

 who died at Cowesett, R. I., August 4, 1902, was the first 

 president. In 1874, the year that the office of the Asso- 

 ciation was removed from Providence to Hartford, I was 

 elected a member of the Board of Appeals, and, in 1876, 

 treasurer. As *vou know, I am still in the harness." 



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